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A year ago, Irish pubs across North Jersey were gearing up for their biggest holiday of the year, St. Patrick’s Day.
Thousands of pounds of corned beef had been ordered, hundreds of gallons of Guinness – enough to satisfy revelers, toasting shoulder to shoulder at their bar of choice.
And yet, pub owners weren t feeling the luck of the Irish.
“We had a feeling something was going to happen,” said Tommy O Reilly, owner of Tommy Fox’s Public House, a beloved Bergenfield institution.
COVID-19 cases were trickling into the state. On March 11, officials in Morristown and Bergenfield announced that their St. Patrick’s Day parades would be rescheduled for September (of course, they were later canceled outright). The Bergen County St. Patrick’s Day parade passes right by Tommy Fox’s and is typically a big day for business.
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Covid patients transferred across country for ICU beds
Updated / Saturday, 23 Jan 2021
19:26
Covid-19 patients have been transferred hundreds of kilometres to get to an ICU bed.
The Clinical Director of the Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Service said that 40 critically ill patients have been moved between hospitals this month so far, including 17 this week.
Dr David Menzies said the majority of the patients have Covid-19 and were being transferred because there wasn t an intensive care bed available in the hospital they were in.
The service is already twice as busy as it was last January, and as hospitals and ICU operate in surge capacity, its role has become even more vital.